Income Support
The way the benefits system works means savers may have to burn through their nest eggs during the pandemic.
Chancellor Rishi Sunak also announces plans to begin scaling back government support for the furlough scheme benefitting 8.4m workers.
477,000 people have applied for the benefit in the last week, welfare secretary Therese Coffey reveals.
Claimants say they are being left up to six weeks without payment.